ἐπυνθανόμην (epynthanomen)

ἐπυνθανόμην is an Ancient Greek form of πυνθάνομαι, meaning “to learn by inquiry, hear of”. It is the 1st person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plato, Lovers 136: … ιουργοί, ἀλλὰ πάντων μετρίως ἐφῆφθαι. μετὰ ταύτην δὴ τὴν ἀπόκρισιν ἐγὼ προθυμούμενος σαφῶς εἰδέναι ὅτι λέγοι, ἐπυνθανόμην αὐτοῦ τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς πότερον χρησίμους ἢ ἀχρήστους εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνοι. χρησίμους δήπου, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἔφη. ἆρʼ οὖν …

All forms of πυνθάνομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.